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"never mind your mother sonny.... eat your bleedin' orange"I worked with a man from Foulridge, Lancashire for over 35 years who often used this phrase whenever there was a problem and he wasn't sure of the answer!.. Said the phrase came from a "chap I used to work with in Colne... but he didn't know what it meant either"Rate it:

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a golden key can open any doorSufficient money can accomplish anything.Rate it:

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abhinc (ante) viginti annos or viginti his annistwenty years ago.Rate it:

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accessio paucorum annorumthe addition of a few years.Rate it:

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aetas consularisthe consular age (43 years).Rate it:

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aetate ingravescentewith the weight, weakness of declining years.Rate it:

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aetate progredientewith advancing years.Rate it:

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aetate provectum esse (not aetate provecta)to be advanced in years.Rate it:

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amplius sunt (quam) viginti anni or viginti annisit is more than twenty years ago.Rate it:

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be a hundred years too earlyTo be so immature and unprepared as to be hopelessly unable to achieve something.Rate it:

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boys will be boysIt is hard, often fruitless, to attempt to curb the natural playfulness and tendency to mischief of most growing boys.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13But just then there was a slight altercation between Master Tommy and Master Jacky. Boys will be boys and our two twins were no exception to this golden rule.Even grown men usually remain somewhat boyish in heart"Boys will be boys", grinned grandpa while he joined his adult son playing with the fancy train-set he gave his grandson for Christmas while the kid was in school.Rate it:

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by the way[...] I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years. But this is by the way.Rate it:

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catch-as-catch-canA. 1681, John Fryer, Richard Chiswell, Robert Roberts, Robert White, A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters, Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672 and Finished 1681.Rate it:

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companyAs he had worked for the CIA for over 30 years, he would soon take retirement from the company.Rate it:

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day and ageA time period of years or more.Rate it:

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decem annos vixisseto be ten years old.Rate it:

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decimum annum excessisse, egressum esseto be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.Rate it:

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deep golden spellTo laugh, to a gag.Rate it:

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do unto others as you would have them do unto youOne should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself; an expression of the golden rule.Rate it:

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donkey's yearsA long time.Rate it:

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entre chien et loupgolden hourRate it:

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faire dix ans de travaux forcésTo undergo ten years’ penal servitude.Rate it:

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flutter in the dovecoteI further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote. — Israel Confronts Its Past.Rate it:

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four score and seven years agoAs an opener, a sometimes sarcastic indicator to indicate a past event being mentioned is particularly important.Rate it:

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four score and seven years ago87 years prior to today.Rate it:

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golden anniversarymarried 50 yearsRate it:

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golden babyA baby born after a rainbow babyRate it:

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golden duckThe score of zero runs after getting out on the first ball faced.Rate it:

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golden gooseSomething that generates much profit or gives great advantages.Rate it:

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golden handcuffsAny arrangement or agreement designed to provide extremely favorable benefits or pay, so as to discourage participant from wanting to leave, especially to retain a choice employee.Rate it:

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golden handshakeA generous severance payment, especially as an inducement to leave employment.Rate it:

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golden helloA payment offered to an employee as an inducement to join, especially if currently working for a competitor.Rate it:

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golden opportunityIdeal moment to do something.Rate it:

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golden parachuteAn agreement between a company and an employee, usually an executive, specifying that the employee will receive certain significant benefits if employment is terminated.Rate it:

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golden ruleA fundamental rule or principle.Rate it:

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golden ruleThe principle that one should treat other people in the manner in which one would want to be treated by them.Rate it:

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golden showerThe act of a person urinating on another, usually for sexual stimulation of one or both persons.Rate it:

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golden showerThe flowering plant Cassia fistulaRate it:

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golden syruplight treacleRate it:

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golden ticketA qualification, person or thing that can provide lucrative opportunities.Rate it:

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golden ticketA philosophy that a quick fix can be achieved.Rate it:

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golden touchAn ability to be successful at anything endeavored.Rate it:

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golden yearsOld age, especially the years after one has retired from employment.Rate it:

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golden yearsThe period during which someone or something flourishes.Rate it:

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goldene hochzeitIt's a German phrase that literally translates to "Golden Wedding", but means that 50th anniversary of someone's wedding.Rate it:

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Homerus fuit multis annis ante Romam conditamHomer lived many years before the foundation of Rome.Rate it:

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I am twenty years oldAlternative form of I'm twenty years oldRate it:

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I'm twenty years oldIndicates that the speaker is aged twenty.Rate it:

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il a trente ans, et cependant il vit aux crochets de sa mèreHe is thirty years old, and yet his mother has to keep him.Rate it:

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il y a quinze ans jour pour jourIt was fifteen years ago to the very day.Rate it:

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